Central Market

Pecorino Cheese mmmmm.
Add a little honey and you have dessert





The flesh of this fruit looked just like an
orange, but it wasn't.


This table of dried fruit was 20+ feet
long with many fruits I have never heard of.

Table of mushrooms with almost as many varieties
as the dried fruit table

Closer then we think

It can be amazing what you can find close by to photograph.

The afternoon that I shot these three images I had been inside the hotel in the "sitting room" checking email and uploading images. I had been staring at these leaves and the interesting shadows that they were making on each other, and how the sun shown through. Ron came in and checked his email, and then took a few shots of the leaves before heading out up the tower. It really hadn't occured to me to shoot the leaves, which I know find kind of funny since my Mom has a slightly similar image of a leaf in her office that I shot in high school. It was probably taken on one of the first five rolls of b/w film I ever shot.
Thanks Ron for reopening my eyes to the simple things around me.
The last shot is just outside the window where the plant sits.

You Guessed it more of del Duomo

Duomo with lamp



Details near the front door of the Duomo


In Piazza della Repubblica. I took it because I liked the
Martini sign


Piazza del Duomo - Across the street from del Duomo

Some of you have been asking when I was in Italy.

I went to Italy this last September 2006, and spent just
over two weeks in Florence, the Chianti region of Tuscany
and Venice.

Cattedrale di Santa Maria Del Fiore "del Duomo"
and the Giotto's Tower

Piazza della Signoria

Building in Piazza Pitti across the street from Palazzo Pitti "The Pitti Palace"


Inside Giardino di Boboli "Boboli Gardens"